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You might have thought I was just horsing around
\nlast March when I
\nposted a photo<\/a> I’d taken of a delivery truck from a local produce
\ndistributor.  Silliness, you thought.  Sophomoric digression.  <\/p>\n

Well, the email came today requesting an interview.  I answered with my
\ncell number.  Then came the phone call. It’s going to be a story about the
\nSyracuse Banana Co.; I was told it will run in the Daily Orange later this week,
\nprobably Thursday.  No telling how many of my insights they’ll have cause
\n(or column inches) to include, but I hope they work in the part where I rattled
\noff a version of, "We’re accustomed to ordinary delivery trucks; then rumbles
\nalong a bright-yellow load of good from Syracuse Banana Co.  Wow! Because
\nit’s a riff on the university’s hyper-orange mood, it’s memorable.  When
\nyou’re new to campus, it’s the odd thing that’s still with you at the end of the
\nday."  Okay, so it was much more coherent on the phone. <\/p>\n

Added: From the DO’s Pulp Section, Friday (1\/20): “Search Peels Away Banana Truck Mystery.”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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